Career
During his heyday, he was Josip Broz Tito"s chief of secret police in Serbia. He was also notable for assisting in the arrest of Draža Mihailović. He also was chairman of the Executive Council of the Serbian parliament.
On 6 November 1964 Penezić and Svetolik Lazarević were killed in a car accident when their car skidded off a wet road into a tree.